Stock-car



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G. D. BURTON.

STOCK OAR.

No. 322,896. Patented July 28, 1885.

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G. D. BURTON.

STOGK GAR.

No. 322,896. Patented July 28, 1885.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. BURTON, OF NEW IPSWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,896, dated July 28, 1885.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, of New Ipswich, county of Hillsborough, and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Stock-Oars, of which the fol lowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of stock-cars, whereby the weight of theload may be brought more nearly over the trucks away from the center of the car, and whereby the attendant may be given better command of the cattle.

In accordance with my invention, the attendants room is arranged at the center of the car, between the apartments occupied by the cattle, the said room having doors opening directly into each cattle-apartment. way the weight of the cattle is brought more nearly over the truck, and the attendant is placed in the most favorable position to give assistance to the cattle and to avoid danger. The hay or feed locker is placed directly under the center of the car, out of the way of be ing injured by drippings from the car. I have also made some improvements in the trough used both for water and for feed, the said trough being movable.

I am aware that other stock-cars have been produced wherein the attendant has a special room communicating with the apartment containing the cattle, the said room being at the end of the car; but in such car the hay or feed locker under the center of the car is liable to have its contents injured by drippings from the car, and so also the greatest weight is at the center of the car, which is objectionable.

My invention consists, essentially, in a stockcar having the attendants room at the center of the car and the cattle apartments at each side thereof and over the trucks, the car being provided below the attendants apartments with a fodder-locker, where it is not exposed to drippings.

Other features of my invention will be set forth at the end of this specification.

Figure 1, in elevation, shows a stock-car partially broken out to show its interior construction and the position of the cattle in one of the cattle-apartments; Fig. 2, a plan view of a stock-car embodying my improvements,

In this the roof of the car at the right of the drawing being removed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the car-body in the line 00 m, Fig. 1, looking of; and Figs. 7 and 8 are details of the trun- 6o nion-bars on which the trough is supported.

The car-body A, having slatted or other usual sides, and mounted on usual trucks,B B, is provided at its central part with room 0, for the attendant, the said room being arranged between the apartments D D, wherein are placed the cattle c '0. Each apartment B has two or more doors, d, for the passage of the cattle into and from the said apartments. The apartments have slanting floors on which the cattle stand, the gutters or runways d being at the central parts of the apartments. At each end of each apartment D is a manger, e, lind at its bottom, preferably with galvanized iron, as at e, a pipe, 6 leading from the said manger outward, preferably through the bottom of the car.

The sides of the car opposite the manger are provided with doors 6 e, to permit access to be had to the manger to supply the trough f with water or feed or fodder, or to clean out the manger. The top of the car at each end is provided with a door, such as shown at f, under which is a box or funnel, f from which leads the water-pipe f provided with branches y, which lead water into the troughs or feedboxes f at the top of the mangers, the said feed-boxes being composed of metal and made water-tight. Each feed-boxf is provided at its ends with journals g,to enter the bearings so that the boxes may normally hang as in Fig. 5, and yet be tipped over or inverted when desired. The pivots g are herein shown as parts of a yoke, g", the center part of which is extended from end to end of the box f, and serves by its weight to constitute a counterpoise. The water tipped from the box f falls into the manger and immediately runs out through the pipe a The attendants room 0, located at the center of the car, between the two apartments D D, affords a safer position for the attendant in case of accident, and also enables him to more readily see where trouble, if any, ex-

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. ists, and placing the attendants room at the center of the car enables some of the cattle to be placed right over the trucks and close to the end of the car, which greatly reduces the strain at the center of the car.

The attendants room has two doors, h, for entrance or exit, at opposite sides of the car, and each partition has a door, if, by which to enter the apartments D. The room 0 is provided with a closet, h, for the clothing of the attendant. The room 0 has a bunk, h.

The feed-locker m, located at the center of the car, under its floor, is not exposed to injury from drippings from the car.

Each apartment D will preferably have a door, a, above each manger for the introduction of feed or for the attendant to enter the car from the roof.

I have aimed to secure a car which may be shortened to the minimum.

The mangers have rings n to receive the ties or halter-straps, if ties or halters are used.

To aid in holding the troughs orboxes f from being overturned, I have pivoted on the top bar of the mangers swing-bars t, the free ends of which turn under the projections t.

I claim v 1. A stock-car having a central room for the attendant, and cattle-apartments at each side thereof and extending from the attend ants room to the ends of the car, the said cattle-apartments having feed and Water troughs at their opposite ends, and having a door, at, at or near the middle of their lengths, whereby the load may be brought more nearly over the trucks and the attendant be located in a more safe and convenient position, substantially as described.

2. A stock-car having cattle-receiving apartments D at each end, a room,O, for the attendant at the center of the car, and the fodder-lock er below the said apartment, Where it is not eX- posed to drippings from the car, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEO. D. BURTON.

WVitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, W. II-Smsron. 

